Professor Chenggang Xu

Professor Chengang Xu was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE Asia Research Centre from the University of Hong Kong.

Professor Xu (PhD in economics, Harvard, 1991) is Professor of Economics at University of Hong Kong and has taught at London School of Economics for 18 years until 2009, is current President of the Asian Law and Economics Association (AsLEA), and is a co-editor for three international journals in economics.

He has dozens of publications in major journals, such as JEL, JPE, AER, RES, EER, etc.; chapters in more than a dozen books, and has published a book. He delivered invited speeches at Econometric Society's Congress, AEA Meetings, IEA Round Tables, EEA Meetings, China Economic Annual Conference, and Hong Kong Economic Association Biennial Conference etc. He has been invited to provide policy advises by the Chinese State Council, Peoples Bank of China, the CASS, the UNDP, the EBRD, and the UK HM Treasury. He has served as consultants for the World Bank and the IMF.

Research Interests

Contract Theory

Corporate Finance/Governance

Law and Economics

Development

Institutions

Political Economics

Chinese economy

Selected Publications

Chenggang Xu, "The Fundamental Institutions of China's Reforms and Development," The Journal of Economic Literature [Forthcoming]

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